Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Listeners at the Saturday conferences also heard a panel on price controls in which David McCord Wright, well-known professor of Economics at the University of Virginia, urged that in order to produce the goods the country needs, the nation must reduce the consumption level...
...Marshal Douglas rescues a salty old rustler (Walter Brennan) from being lynched as a murderer, and starts back with him to distant Santa Loma for trial. Along the way he endures interference by the rustler's hellcatty daughter (Virginia Mayo), ambush and pursuit by the lynch mob, the shooting of one deputy, the treachery of another, the loss of his horse, a desert sandstorm and a three-day spell of thirst and sleeplessness. Worst of all, he is sorely tormented by his prisoner's sadistic singing of a ballad that summons up the marshal's old guilt...
Training in amphibious warfare, culminating in an assault landing exercise at Camp Pendleton, Virginia, will highlight the summer program for sophomore NROTC midshipmen this year. The 37 student officers will get three weeks of aviation indoctrination at Pensacola, Florida, in addition to the three weeks of amphibious training at Little Creek, Virginia, to prepare them for their practice landing...
...Training: 10 weeks basic OCS at Parris Island, South Carolina, then, 5 months basic training after receipt of commission at Quantico, Virginia. (Note: Candidates must hold degree by end of 10 weeks at Parris Island and not have reached 27th birthday by July 1st, 1951.) Finally, active duty for 21 months...
Inside the gate at Camp Pickett, deep in the dusty Virginia pine barrens, a soldier stood methodically thrusting copies of a neat, mimeographed pamphlet into the hands of arriving draftees. The cover bore the grape-leaf emblem of the 43rd ("Winged Victory") Division, and the first page carried a message from its commander: "You have just joined the best outfit in the Army ... I expect to see you doing your jobs as soldiers in the best division in the best Army in the world. (Signed) Kenneth F. Cramer, Major General, Commanding...